Is it true that all indian students accepted to mit this year have medals in international olympiads? Or someone who does’nt have an international olympiad medal also got into MIT this year from India?
I can’t answer your question about specific students’ acceptances, but direct you to this page that shows a 2% international acceptance rate for class of 2022, as well as some other relevant stats http://mitadmissions.org/apply/process/stats
Class of 2022, only Lay Jain had an international olympiad medal prior to application (gold at IPhO 2017 [and got a second in 2018], although you may also count the IJSO). That’s one out of five.
No other admits from India had medals at an international level.
Let’s copy and paste MITChris from the past:
“Medals are not a prerequisite. Medals are not something in and of themselves that we value. Medals are one of many ways by which an applicant can demonstrate extraordinary intelligence, skill, contributions, etc.”
I personally know a US Olympiad winner, so top sixteen in the US Math Olympiad who got a big old reject from MIT
in the last few years. He landed at a public state school. So, medals may not mean much, but it all depends on the package. This particular student was already at the state school as a dual enrolled high school student, and not that active in his high school and maybe did not understand what MIT was looking for. It was not being the top 16 in mathematics, at elast in his applicant pool. In the 1970s he would have gotten in. He is Chinese American, and doing fine and thinking of transferring to a better public program than where he is at. He got over MIT.